Overview
- Sridhar Vembu escalated his critique on December 2, questioning claims that vibe‑coded apps will displace traditional software and citing Zoho’s customer growth exceeding 50 percent.
- He argued there are still no credible vibe‑coded replacements for core categories like email, spreadsheets, accounting and messaging, warning that the approach “just piles up tech debt faster.”
- Vembu directly challenged Y Combinator’s Garry Tan—who said non‑technical teams will soon vibe‑code custom tools instead of paying for SaaS—vowing to outshine and outlast such companies.
- Sundar Pichai recently praised vibe coding as making development “more enjoyable” and said over 25 percent of new Google code is written by AI, while cautioning it is not suited to large, security‑sensitive codebases.
- Google has promoted Gemini 3 as its “best vibe coding model ever,” and the term itself—coined by Andrej Karpathy—describes building software by stating goals in plain language for an AI to generate and refine code.